Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Korea South and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Pere Ubu to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Das Ding tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brand Nubian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Neu!,
Toni Rubio,
Charles Mingus,
DJ Style,
Black Flag,
Au Pairs,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Piero Umiliani,
Gong,
Khruangbin,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Barclay James Harvest,
Max Romeo,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Colin Newman,
Lower 48,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crime,
Laurel Aitken,
Nico,
Subhumans,
Swans,
Stereo Dub,
U.S. Maple,
Agitation Free,
Dark Day,
Nirvana,
Dual Sessions,
Fear,
Kaleidoscope,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Erykah Badu,
Jeff Mills,
Minny Pops,
Radio Birdman,
Boz Scaggs,
kango's stein massive,
Monolake,
Marine Girls,
Cymande,
Hardrive,
Lucky Dragons,
Ludus,
Skriet,
Quantec,
Scott Walker,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Coltrane,
Eddi Front,
Gang Starr,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Association,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lou Reed,
48th St. Collective,
Deadbeat,
The Tremeloes,
Leonard Cohen,
New York Dolls,
Magma,
Wire,
Sexual Harrassment,
One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.